Monday, December 08, 2008

Want to see the individual Coaches' Top 25 ballots? It's fascinating to see the conference rivalries and loyalties -- and conflicts-of-interest -- revealed so transparently. You can play with this for a hour. I spent 3 minutes:

#1. Chris Peterson and Kyle Whittingham need to get some balls. Their players should be pissed off they didn't rank their teams higher. When a 4 or 8 team playoff is discussed, I don't like how people dismiss Utah and Boise State. But if their own head coach doesn't think they are a top team, how can anyone?

um, being that the SEC only lost 11 games out of conference (3 to current AP25 teams), i'm assuming your "30" number comes from...SEC teams losing to other SEC teams who are in the top 25? you're right, that's a scathing indictment of the conference.

Just so you know actual coaches like Ty Willingham, Urban Meyer, Gary Pinkel, etc. do not do the voting for the most part. It is usually given to assistants to do. So when saying Gary Pinkel slotted so and so here, say Missouri because it most likely was not Pinkel. There was an article in the USA Today about this a few years ago.

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